I'm happy to report that KDE is running much better now. $ yum list kdebase Loaded plugins: downloadonly, kmdl, refresh-packagekit Installed Packages kdebase.i686 6:4.5.3-1.fc13 @kde-testing _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org